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Definition of Living substance
1. Noun. The substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus).
Generic synonyms: Substance
Specialized synonyms: Cytol, Cytoplasm, Karyoplasm, Nucleoplasm, Germ Plasm, Plasm, Blood Platelet, Platelet, Thrombocyte
Lexicographical Neighbors of Living Substance
Literary usage of Living substance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"Moreover, we have reasons to think that the living substance does not break down
into ... I is not incorporated into the living substance at a single step, ..."
2. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"The differences therefore between living substance and dead substance though
recondite are very great, and the ultimate object of Physiology is to ascertain ..."
3. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1897)
"SELECTION OF ENVIRONMENT BY THE living substance. I have shown that throughout
the Metazoan mass, as throughout the Protozoan, physiological function is ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... more complex living substance, the same fall of the living substance into
simple waste-products. There is the same power <>Г active movement, ..."
5. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1872)
"2nd. living substance — formative material, which has been endowed with absolute
... Formative material and living substance are seen respectively in the ..."